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Old 01-20-2009, 09:11 PM   #1
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Default Question about GL lyrics...

I know this is more of Lightfoots fine poetry at work here, but in the song "If You Need Me":

"But if you need me
Show me a way to get through
Cause I've not see anyone like you
Since I was a man"

but when he says "since I was a man", what exactly is he saying? Is he no longer consider himself a man anymore? Or could it mean he no longer considers himself a young man?
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Old 01-20-2009, 10:09 PM   #2
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I believe he means "since he's been a man" (matured?)
That is how I've always read it. That is an excellent, though unheralded song.
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Old 01-20-2009, 10:31 PM   #3
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Since I was a man - hmmmmm.
I take this to mean since he 'became' a man..probably in the 'biblical' sense..
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Old 01-23-2009, 12:37 AM   #4
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I always figured it dealt with when he grew up from boyhood to manhood. Good song, anyway.....
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Old 01-23-2009, 12:39 AM   #5
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"Since I was a man..." Since I BECAME a man??
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Old 01-23-2009, 12:40 AM   #6
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"Since I was a man..." Since I BECAME a man??
that's what I figure..since I WAS/BECAME a man...
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